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...Eisenach, where a new auto industry has been built up over the past few years - the latest downturn is biting, though local officials stress that at least their position is better now than it was. "We're certainly in a crisis," says Peter Haimann, president of Halle's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, "but we also have much more flexibility to face...
...work if the economic policies underlying them are miscued. In hindsight, eastern Germany's economic wellbeing was sabotaged at the very beginning of the reunification process by the political decision to exchange its currency for West German marks at the rate of one-to-one. Haimann, of the Halle Chamber of Commerce, thinks that was a crucial error. The true value of the old East German mark was just one-fourth or one-fifth of the West German currency, so when it was swapped in 1990 at parity, the competitiveness of the local economy took a nosedive - compounded...
...Some conservatives think that in the long run, the party will be better off without squishes like Specter muddling the coherence of its brand; a GOP campaign committee celebrated his departure with an e-mail headlined "Good riddance," and Limbaugh urged him to take McCain along. Inside this echo chamber, a center-right nation punished Republicans for abandoning their principles, for enabling Bush's spending sprees, for insufficient conservatism. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who has refused to accept $700 million in stimulus cash for his state despite bitter opposition from his GOP-dominated legislature, argues that Chick...
...recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have to remember what made these classics great in the first place," Berry explains. (See pictures of London...
Meanwhile, time is running short. Both the House and Senate have set an extraordinarily ambitious timetable that would have the legislation passing each chamber by the time Congress adjourns for its August recess. Increasingly, the President's allies worry that they simply cannot get there that quickly without a much bigger investment of Obama's enormous political capital...